Number 138 on IMDb's Top 250
Laura Jesson, a country housewife, bored with the security of her husband and family, goes into town once a week for shopping and a matinee picture. On one of her weekly excursions, she accidentally meets Dr. Alec Harvey in the waiting room of the railroad station. Both are early middle-aged, married, and have two children each.
Enjoying one another's company, they continue to meet weekly for a cup of tea in the refreshment room of the station while they await their respective trains home. They are soon dismayed to find their innocent and casual relationship quickly developing into love. For a while, they continue to meet furtively in cafes and cinemas, constantly fearing chance meetings with friends. After several meetings, they go to a room belonging to a friend of the doctor's, but their meeting is interrupted by the friend's unexpected return. Realizing that a future together is impossible and wishing not to hurt their families, they agree to part. The doctor is to leave for Africa. Hilarity ensues.
Trivia: Carnforth station was chosen partly because it was so far from the South East of England that it would receive sufficient warning of an air-raid attack that there would be time to turn out the filming lights to comply with wartime blackout restrictions. On initial release, the film was banned by the strict censorship board in Ireland on the grounds that it portrayed an adulterer in a sympathetic light.
This is one of those romantic forbidden love fails to overcome what is right and proper, i.e. not leaving their spouses, the proper british stiff upper lips and such, here here. It was a pretty good movie with a lot of proper english and stuff, for example, "This can't last. This misery can't last. I must remember that and try to control myself. Nothing lasts really. Neither happiness nor despair. Not even life lasts very long. There'll come a time in the future when I shan't mind about this anymore, when I can look back and say quite peacefully and cheerfully how silly I was. No, no, I don't want that time to come ever. I want to remember every minute, always, always to the end of my days." (be sure to read it in a british accent, if you didn't go back and read it right, go ahead, we will wait...hmm...hmm <---Humming...okay ready? Good). This movie is based on a Noel Coward play.
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